Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove
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Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove
Life
Details about the life of Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove are few. He was born around 1620-25 and became in 1639 a pupil of the leading artist Jacob van Oost in Bruges. Van Meunincxhove became a master in the Bruges Guild of Saint Luke in 1644.[2]
He is recorded in Antwerp in 1677 when he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. Later he returned to Bruges where he is recorded between 1682 and 1704, the year in which he likely died there.[2]
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Joseph van den Kerckhove was his pupil.[2]
Work
While his master Jacob van Oost was mainly known as a history and portrait painter, Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove's artistic path ventured into more diverse directions. He is known to have worked in a wide range of genres including architectural paintings of churches, city views, group scenes, marine views, landscapes and history paintings.[3]
Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove produced two sets of views of the city centre of Bruges: each set consisted of a view of the central square and the Burg Square in Bruges (both sets are in the Groeningemuseum in Bruges). The first set was produced in 1672 and the second set in the 1690s. The figures in these cityscapes may be by the hand of other masters.[4]
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Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove further painted two views of the interiors of the Saint Donatus and Saint Salvator churches in Bruges (first painting now in the Groeningemuseum and the other on location in the church itself).[5]
Van Meunincxhove painted two remarkable paintings documenting events which occurred during the residence in Bruges of
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Van Meunincxhove also painted a number of compositions with religious subjects, which are now found in churches in Bruges such as the St Anne's Church.[7] He was further known as a landscape and marine painter.[8][9]
References
- ^ Name variations: Jan Baptist van Mennixhove, Jan Baptist van Mueninxhove, Jan Baptist van Muninxhove, Jan Baptist van Munynxhove
- ^ a b c Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- ^ Works of Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove at Belgian art links and tools (BALAT) (in Dutch)
- ^ Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove at vlaamsekunstcollectie (in Dutch)
- ^ Interieur van de voormalige Sint-Donaaskerk in Brugge at lukasweb (in Dutch)
- ^ Jan Baptiste Van Meunincxhove - Karel II in de hovingen van de Gilde van Sinte-Barbara at Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen. (in Dutch)
- ^ Jezus voor de hogepriester Annas at Belgian art links and tools (BALAT) (in Dutch)
- ^ Zeegezicht at Belgian art links and tools (BALAT) (in Dutch)
- ^ Le bain des reliques de Saint Winoc at Belgian art links and tools (BALAT) (in French)
External links
Media related to Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove at Wikimedia Commons